The writer holds an LLM degree in international economic law from the University of Warwick. Unregulated border management appears to be one of the emerging challenges threatening relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. In an environment of heightened security concerns, the issue of coordinated border management should have been addressed much earlier. It is said Afghanistan had been sitting silent on Pakistan’s proposal for coordination on the border management since 2012. The recent dip in relations…
Posts published in “Day: July 11, 2016”
NOWSHERA: Chief Minister Pervez Khattak has termed Afghan refugees a big problem and said that the province could not afford their presence anymore. “The federal interior minister should prepare a strategy for repatriation of the registered and non-registered Afghan refugees. Now the Afghan refugees have to play their positive role for their own country,” said the chief minister while talking to media persons in his village Manki Sharif here on Friday. Mr Khattak said that…
The writer is a former editor of Dawn. WHATEVER you say about Pakistan’s foreign policy and its de jure head, Sartaj Aziz, you will have to concede both are pretty consistent, and if this consistency of thought and policy comes at unimaginable cost to the nation so be it. Towards the end of last week in an interview to Reuters, the prime minister’s adviser on foreign affairs, answered the critics of the country’s policy who…
As the dust around the Dhaka tragedy settles, the public is looking for someone to point the finger at, and Zakir Naik is quickly becoming the primary target.Reportedly, some of the terrorists involved in the attack were avid supporters, which has put the less-than-credible televangelist in hot water.Zakir Naik can be bigoted and often propagates views that advocates the supremacy of Islam over other religions and these can often be perceived as extremist or radical…
ISLAMABAD/PESHAWAR: The Foreign Office extended Eid greetings to Kashmiris and in a rare visit to the Line of Control by an army chief over the Eid holidays, Gen Raheel Sharif visited the troops deployed along the LoC on the second day of the festival. The FO greetings came after the Kashmiris in the India-held valley opted to observe Eid with Pakistan instead of India, where Muslims celebrated the festive occasion a day after, thus reinforcing…
RAWALPINDI: Unlike the 2013 general and the 2015 local government elections, the Rawalpindi district is set to witness a major contest between the PML-N and the PPP in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir elections to be held on July 21. In the AJK legislative assembly, three constituencies reserved for the Valley and Jammu fall in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad and the Rawalpindi division and six constituencies in different districts of Punjab, including…
BEIJING — You Minglei, a legal assistant to a human rights lawyer in Fuzhou, in southern China, was waiting on Friday for his wife, Zhao Wei, to come home. The police had released Ms. Zhao on bail on Thursday after nearly a year in jail and just two days before the anniversary of mass detentions of rights lawyers and activists in China that have drawn criticism from around the world and that are known as…
A year after China’s government arrested dozens of public-interest lawyers and activists in a coordinated police sweep loudly criticized by Western governments, the announced release of one of them is proving more of a gift to state propaganda than to her supporters. On Thursday, police in the city of Tianjin, where many of those detained are being held, unexpectedly announced the youngest of the activists, 24-year-old Zhao Wei, had been released on China’s equivalent of…
BEIJING — However isolated North Korea may be, it has long had one major ally: China. But for two years, China’s leader, President Xi Jinping, seemed to be favoring Pyongyang’s neighbor and nemesis to the south. He spent much political capital wooing South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye, in hopes of drawing the country away from its longtime ally, the United States. He made an elaborate state visit to Seoul while shunning North Korea and its…
Lhasa: The Lhasa Consensus of 2016, a document that includes expert suggestions for the development of Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, was released on Friday at a forum in Lhasa, regional capital of Tibet, pledging a focus on sustainable and green development that suits the region. Jiang Jie, head of the publicity department of Tibet, said that the document will help the world to better know Tibet, help build consensus about Tibet from all parties,…
In the aftermath of Bangladesh’s 9/11 and the killings of twenty innocent people at the Holey Artisan Bakery, Bangladesh is at crossroads. What choice Bangladesh makes now will determine the future of the country and its 150 million people. Whether the country and the government adapts a transparent policy position, gives up silly pride and petty politics, or whether the government will continue to obfuscate and play politics will determine if the country can emerge…